Insertcoolsaying.....wow, just plain wow.
With all due respect, you appear to be living in the stone age. These are businesses, and the people that work there are independant contaractors that according to Revenue Canada, can claim all their expenses just like all other independant workers in this country. The days of pimps are long gone and those situations are in the minority. You will be hard pressed to find people working in this business that are actually forced into this line of work. If you do find it, it will most likely be the case of family forcing a young girl to work, or illegal migrants with contracts, which again, is in the minority.
The current situation with studios is one of the better alternatives out there, providing a legal, safe and licensed facility in which to ply their trade from....plus it helps keep prostitution more regulated and out of the eyes of the scrutinizing public.....which means it treats the people in the business more like the regular work force in this country. I know, I know, it will be a long, slow, gradual change, but that is where acceptance begins.
And I ask you, what is your solution? Where do you spend your dollars, who do you support? I think the amount of illegal workers and unlicensed independants coming to this city is a huge problem....it allows everything to run unchecked....and that never ends well.
And if we are to lay blame....the City, collecting taxes and licensing fees from these people, is the biggest pimp. A government is the sum of it's people, you are one of it's people. As a benefactor of the collected taxes in this city or country, YOU are in fact benefitting from prostitution.
I am not picking a fight, just asking you to look at a bigger picture.